Hello. You will find our conflict appropriately placed. Philosophers are compelled to attack people because they themselves suffer from an identity crisis; they think they are their thoughts. Here you will find people that can play with ideas because we know who we are and recognize thoughts, emotions, concepts etc as products of being human. We play for amusement sometimes, but the goal is far more serious. Consider that humanity, the state of living and perceiving as human, comes with It's own bias. While the more pragmatic of us play with ideas in order to function in spite of human, cultural, sexual, national, etc, biases, others frame their conclusions as truths. Furthermore, the most common cause for failed philosophical debate is 1) the desire to challenge another's world view by attacking their truths 2) the amateur mistake of not tracing the source of presented truths to their motivations.

Once isolated from their ideas, people are not as defensive and are therefore left with a greater concentration on the debate at hand - and hopefully the error in thought that motivated the debate to begin with.

I avoid names which have no place here quite intentionally. However, students do not always agree with their teacher. This normally isn't a problem unless the teacher is not significantly more than the students they teach.

Trust, you will find, is a pervasive issue online. I have read most of your posts and find no fault worthy of dislike, yet I cannot nor will not trust you for many years. I have met all types of people online. Some go to great lengths, for what purpose only they know. However, I have made three great friendships online. The only advise I can give is always be yourself. For good or bad, honesty is always the best policy. Secondly, phone calls greatly expedite the honeymoon. Lastly, take little personal; Mortox once wanted to decerebrate me with an icecream scoop. Bad example - probably still might.

Awesome. David I shall PM you tomorrow, but what do you mean about speculation?

First I must converse with my corporeal self, the mighty Mortose. Or Mortox? Girl what did you do to those people at FA to break them so badly? If I have been so quickly mistaken for you over there, I think we might get along famously!

VixensVengeance wrote:Awesome. David I shall PM you tomorrow, but what do you mean about speculation?

First I must converse with my corporeal self, the mighty Mortose. Or Mortox? Girl what did you do to those people at FA to break them so badly? If I have been so quickly mistaken for you over there, I think we might get along famously!

Perhaps start with questions or join one of the three aspects of this place?

No not just that. I have been conversing with David for a while by PM over at that "other place" and been asking questions of him and a few others. But that place seems like a political hotbed of bullshit and that's not conducive to anything constructive in the way of progress. They would rather come up with conspiracies about who I am rather than actually discuss spirituality or worldviews. So how do I join an aspect here?

And here I was gonna take the time to convince David to bring you over. VV and I spent a little time geeking out Friday before I signed off, so felt she would make an excellent addition.

As far as Mortose, what she did, she did to David and you can see how David dealt with that. What you see over 'there' is the product of their own doing. Sometimes the best work one can do is to let others do as they will.

_________________"To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you cannot criticize" - Voltaire